The nurse is assessing a client's risk factors for developing a substance abuse disorder. Which family characteristics would the nurse identify as a significant risk factor?

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The strongest indication of risk factors comes from studies that indicate children of alcoholic parents are four times as likely to develop alcoholism that of nonalcoholic parents. Some theorists also believe that inconsistency in the parent's behavior, poor role modeling, and lack of nurturing pave the way for the child to adopt a similar style of maladaptive coping, stormy relationships, and substance abuse. Others hypothesize that even children who abhorred their family lives are likely to abuse substances as adults because they lack adaptive coping skills and cannot form successful relationships.
Urban areas where drugs and alcohol are readily available also have high crime rates, high unemployment, and substandard school systems that contribute to high rates of cocaine and opioid use and low rates of recovery.

The Nurse Is Assessing a Client's Risk Factors for Developing